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Portuguese Rice Pudding

Portuguese Rice Pudding - A Family Feast
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Ingredients

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  • 4 cups of water
  • 1 orange peel
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup short grain rice (see note above)
  • 1 cup milk
  • 3/4 cup heavy cream
  • 3/4 cup white sugar
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 4 egg yolks beat in medium bowl
  • Cinnamon for garnish

Instructions

  1. In a medium sauce pan, bring water to boil along with orange peel, cinnamon stick, butter and salt. When it reaches a full boil, add in the rice. Reduce heat to a low simmer and cook for 20-25 minutes (this time will depend on which type of short grain rice you use) Gently simmer until almost all of the water has been absorbed. Stir often.
  2. While rice is cooking, heat milk and cream to very hot but not scorched. (You’ll need to time this so the milk gets heated just before you add it to the rice mixture.)
  3. Pour hot milk into rice mixture and stir. Simmer for 5 minutes. Now stir in both sugars and vanilla and turn off heat.
  4. Slowly whisk in hot rice mixture into eggs a tiny bit at a time to temper the eggs. After three or so cups of rice have been whisked into eggs, pour egg mixture back into rice and whisk.
  5. With tongs or a fork, remove and discard orange peel and cinnamon stick.
  6. Place pudding back on stove and simmer gently for 10 minutes to allow mixture to thicken.
  7. Cool mixture in one large serving dish or into individual servings. Top with powdered cinnamon.

Notes

Short grain white rice comes in a lot of different varieties. The grains are twice as long as they are wide. Some have more starch than others and some take longer to cook. You need to just watch this as it cooks and make a judgment when to add the milk. For my recipe, I used Korean sweet sticky rice which is very starchy and only took 20 minutes before adding milk. Others may take longer. As a result of the many varieties of rice, it may be necessary to add more milk if the mixture cools too thick. Just add a little at a time to the finished cooled pudding until you reach the desired consistency.

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